Why am I interested in Rita Mae Brown? I admit that I have only read her Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, and that I picked up the former because it was about a gay teenager. I came across the latter after taking an interest in Sue Grafton, and found it next to Brown's mystery series. But she has an easy writing style that feels familiar - I shouldn't be able to identify with the protagonist of Rubyfruit Jungle, all we have in common is that we're both dykes, and yet Brown makes her immediately likeable. I don't have anything else in common with the star of Bingo, but the writing style makes me immediately interested in the small-town journalist. While Brown herself is a revolutionary, her work never seems so - none of her characters are out to change the world, and there is no pressure on the reader to do so.